For Immediate Release Feb. 20, 2013 West Wood Village Resident Association Inc. Homeowners purchase 66-site Plymouth park; join growing Mass. trend of resident-owned manufactured home communities Contacts: Bob Howard, President, West Wood Village Resident Association (774) 283-2878 Andy Danforth, Housing
Op-Ed: Cooperatives could benefit Maine residents
Our own Rob Brown has written a great Op-Ed for the Bangor Daily News for Co-op Month, highlighting the benefits that Resident Ownership through cooperatives could bring to people living in manufactured home parks in Maine.Check it out:http://bangordailynews.com/2012/10/11/opinion/how-trailer-park-cooperatives-could-benefit-maine/
CDI Helps 2 Communities, 466 Families Go Co-op
CDI HELPS 2 COMMUNITIES, 466 FAMILIESGO CO-OP IN SINGLE TRANSACTION For immediate release CDI HELPS 2 COMMUNITIES, 466 FAMILIES GO CO-OP IN SINGLE TRANSACTION Carver, MA, June 25, 2012: The residents’ associations of 2 manufactured housing communities comprised of a
ROC USA on All Things Considered (NPR)
The NH public radio story that aired last week has now hit the national airwaves on NPR’s All Things Considered: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/02/151863518/home-sweet-mobile-home-co-ops-deliver-ownership. We’d like to point out that we are working day and night to help the community referred to in the
2 Job Openings at CDI: Housing Program Organizers
The Cooperative Development Institute is hiring for two part-time positions: housing program organizers in Maine and in Southeast New England. See job description below. Cooperative Development Institute (www.cdi.coop) is seeking a new hire to join its New England Resident Owned
Homestead Acres Vermont’s newest Resident-Owned Community
Congratulations to the 26 residents of Homestead Acres Mobile Home Park in Swanton, VT for officially purchasing their community today! The residents’ association, Homestead Acres Co-op, is the second to take ownership of a manufactured housing community or “mobile home
Bunker Hill Community Cooperative Purchases the 14-home Bunker Hill
Press garnered about this story: Valley News newspaper: http://www.vnews.com/07262011/7941365.htm WPTV tv news: http://www.wptz.com/r/28673441/detail.html WCAX tv news: http://www.wcax.com/story/15152251/how-residents-kept-their-mobile-home-park-from-closing Windsor, VT – Nearly half a year after receiving news that their community was likely to be shut down forever, homeowners at Bunker
NYT article features CDI work with Manufactured Home Park Co-ops
In today’s New York Times, Loren Berlin published “At More Mobile-Home Parks, a Greater Sense of Security“, a look at the growing movement for residents of manufactured home parks to form nonprofit cooperatives that purchase and manage the operations of